>>56418644>Every game has community run rulesets, with bans (especially for games that lack balance patches) decided by the community.Pokemon is an outlier in this. Almost all competitive games have their rules dictated by the company that makes the game, and then the community comes up with the meta around those rules. This kind of playground rules bullshit only happens with Smash (which is a children's game with no competitive circuit) and Pokemon, which for a lot of its competitive history by necessity required community rules because the games didn't necessarily provide their own. That hasn't been the case for Pokemon since gen 5 (if not earlier), but Smogon still insists on playing their own game instead of competitive Pokemon. I wouldn't care about Smogon doing that since that's their prerogative except that they don't stick to their own website. Any time I want to talk about competitive Pokemon I have to hear people talk about OU and AG like it has any bearing whatsoever on the cart battling experience.
